JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

And the only way to succeed is through an effective contact center management system. This blog will look at the tips and best practices for contact center management. Follow them to optimize your contact center operation and ensure smooth customer service. What is Contact Center Management?

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Expivia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Keeping up with current contact center trends is a crucial part of being a world-leading customer service provider. You need to discover the latest technology, innovation, and process improvements to improve your call center and provide your customers with the best possible experience. And we’re already seeing it today.”.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI): AI revolutionizes call centers by enabling smarter interactions and predictive insights. Chatbots : AI-powered chatbots handle routine queries, providing quick and accurate responses. Performance Metrics and KPIs: Monitoring call center performance is essential. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

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NICE inContact

JUNE 20, 2019

Traditionally quality management in the contact center has been focused on evaluating agent-assisted interactions — mainly phone. We already discussed the gap between the number of digital channels for CX that are supported in the contact center and the number of channels that are evaluated as part of a business’ QM programs.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to be a defining trend for contact centers in 2023, and IT leaders must be prepared to think broadly about the possibilities. Chatbots are the most common way to automate self-service, but to get fuller value, a wider spectrum needs to be considered.

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Aspect

OCTOBER 16, 2017

I won’t go into details on why this phrase drives me crazy but I think it does make for a good contact center illustration. Less than half of agents indicated they are optimistic about opportunities for advancement in the contact center where they work. Customer support chatbots to the rescue. More sales?

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Avaya

AUGUST 12, 2019

Are organizations attempting to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the contact center? In fact, the majority (58%) of executives believe that chatbots are the only form of AI that their organization is currently using effectively. Yes, without a doubt. What exactly does this mean?

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Balto

AUGUST 3, 2022

As the global economy shows signs of recession, the Conversation Excellence Lab wanted to understand how executives are planning to shift their contact center budgets, and how they view the future of the contact center as a whole. Is the contact center a drain on resources, a necessary expense to manage customer needs?

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Aspect

JANUARY 10, 2018

Here are five suggestions to improve your contact center technology in 2018. Build a chatbot: Chatbots offer businesses with limited resources an incredible ROI. Customer Service Chatbots can support both sales and service inquiries, and continue to increase in popularity among tech-savvy consumers today.

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Aspect

JANUARY 10, 2018

Build a chatbot: Chatbots offer businesses with limited resources an incredible ROI. Chatbots can support both sales and service inquiries, and continue to increase in popularity among tech-savvy consumers today. Take advantage of agent coaching and eLearning to prepare your agents.

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Customer Service Life

JUNE 26, 2017

Ruth McCullen and Jeremy Watkin had the pleasure of having Virginia from Kingman Ink draw as we helped contact center leaders tell better stories. This article was originally published on the FCR blog on June 9, 2017. I had a fantastic time at the 2017 Contact Center Expo and Conference in Orlando, Florida.

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Aspect

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Given these figures, it becomes increasingly clear that contact center leaders today must consider it a primary function to protect the company’s reputation and bottom line by directly engaging and diffusing hostile online communications. The post The High Cost of a Bad Review appeared first on Aspect Blogs.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

It reminds me of a relay race where one of the runners is a chatbot and passes the ‘experience baton’ onto an agent to complete the final leg and win the race. We can all recite horror stories where chatbots send us around in infinite loops with seemingly no ability or interest in actually helping us with even the simplest tasks.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 16, 2020

This is the last in a series of blog posts examining key contact center trends for 2020, and the first three lead up to this broader theme of innovation driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI). This means that AI applications for the contact center do not come fully-formed. 24/7 Self-service.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Over the course of 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) became mainstream for contact centers. As with cloud adoption, the promise of AI has become compelling enough that contact center leaders are no longer wondering if it has a place in their plans. Workflow automation is an important contact center use case for AI.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It has the potential to revolutionize certain aspects of business, specifically when it comes to content marketing and contact center communications. The technology can produce marketing copy like newsletters, emails, and even blogs. In the contact center, Generative AI can produce content for agent coaching.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. After researching several articles, white papers and ebooks on the topic, this blog’s intention is to bring clarity to what the experts are saying.

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Customer Service Life

MARCH 24, 2018

This article was originally published on the ICMI Blog on December 21, 2018. Looking back over the past year of working in contact centers, it’s a daunting task to recall the lessons I’ve learned for a few reasons. Coaching does. Several years ago, as a customer center leader, I sort of gave up on my QA process.

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Aspect

AUGUST 30, 2017

With the strides being made with machine learning and artificial intelligence today, it should come as no surprise that the market for chatbots and automated messaging services is surging to all-time highs. But if you ask contact center agents themselves, you’ll hear an entirely different story.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. After researching several articles, white papers and ebooks on the topic, this blog’s intention is to bring clarity to what the experts are saying.

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Aspect

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The contact center industry is currently undergoing a period of rapid transformation brought about by the convergence of changing consumer expectations and disruptive technology. And fortunately, there are plenty of ways to determine the efficacy of new initiatives in your contact center.

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

Customer-facing AI technologies are especially relevant to assisting in customer identification, call classification/routing, chatbots and predictive personalization. This is likely one reason why Oracle found that 80% of sales and marketing leaders say they currently use or plan to deploy chatbots in the near future. Biometrics.

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Avaya

JULY 24, 2019

Brands are built on the great experiences that employees deliver to customers, starting with the contact center. A recent study from Customer Contact Week shows the following to have the biggest impact on the agent experience: Empowerment to offer custom/unique resolutions to customers (23%). Training/coaching (13%).

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teleopti

OCTOBER 18, 2019

CX has also totally revolutionized the way front-line operations such as contact centers measure their success, switching from the number of calls answered and how quickly to how well do we understand customers? Then, use quality evaluations and analytics to detect coaching needs and automatically schedule training at quieter times.

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Aspect

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Many of the latest contact center management tools on the market today are designed to bridge the gap between consumer preference and businesses objectives. Contact center leaders know to expect the unexpected – the unintended blowback from customers who have been marketed to one too many times. To be honest, not always.

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Hodusoft

JULY 19, 2023

Choosing the right inbound call center software can help businesses in improving customer satisfaction, reducing wait times, and increasing operational efficiency. In this blog, we will explore everything related to inbound call center software. We are going the cover the following points- What is inbound call center software?

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Cyara

JULY 9, 2019

The contact center has become the inflection point for digital transformation in the enterprise. To accomplish this, the vast majority of enterprises are moving their contact centers to the cloud. What are the drivers of migrating contact centers to the cloud?”. Blog: Art Schoeller at Forrester Research.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 1, 2017

For many organizations, a huge part of this new year task is setting contact center priorities — priorities that can have a colossal impact on the customer experience. But deciding on annual goals and specific yearly focuses for a call center isn’t always easy. Tip: Begin to examine your existing contact center processes.

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Operating a successful contact center demands attention to a wide range of factors, from investing in your agents’ well-being and training to implementing the right tools and technology. Training programs should be designed to meet the specific needs of the contact center and its agents.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

From driving assistance to data analysis to chatbots, generative AI (GenAI) is finding its usefulness in a host of ways across all industries. How Quality Management Processes Have Shifted It could be called the perfect storm for contact centers. One of the most impactful uses is how AI is transforming customer experience (CX).

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Balto

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Modern enterprise contact center solutions utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to identify customer pain points, the causes of low scores, and why your customers aren’t satisfied with their experience with your company. A contact center is considered successful if it’s customer-centric.

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Enghouse Interactive

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The following blog takes a look at the contact centre and what we can expect to see in 2019. Contact centres will continue to migrate towards robotic technology and artificial intelligence, but the reality won’t match the hype. Real Time Speech Analytics will Evolve into an Agent Coaching Tool.

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Fonolo

APRIL 11, 2023

And they should help call center managers see the importance of queue management and the perils of keeping customers waiting on hold You’ve come to the right place! In this blog, we’ll explore the best practices for call center queue management. It helps managers match staffing to call volume and prevent long wait times.

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Balto

JANUARY 22, 2024

We’ve seen generative AI being applied in different industries with great results, specifically in the contact center domain. This blog aims to uncover the numerous use cases of generative AI in the modern contact center. Monitor and Ensure Compliance Maintaining compliance is foundational for your contact center.

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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Contact center success is heavily dependent on the agents working the frontlines to service customers every single day. Contact center agent happiness and engagement go hand-in-hand with customer happiness and satisfaction. According to ICMI , contact centers have a fairly high turnover rate of 33%.

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Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

This post is part of Talkdesk’s live-blogging series for Dreamforce 2017. Leah Groos, director of member experience at the human performance company Aduro discussed their modern, artificial intelligence-driven contact center. We use chatbots to address the easy needs, but always give the exit route to talk to human.

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Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

This post is part of Talkdesk’s live-blogging series for Dreamforce 2017. Leah Groos, director of member experience at the human performance company Aduro discussed their modern, artificial intelligence-driven contact center. We use chatbots to address the easy needs, but always give the exit route to talk to human.

Technology 41

Technology Chatbots Sales Healthcare 41